Display form and method of making the same



April 5,1927.

' L. W. REINHARDT DISPLAY FORM AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME 1 Filed June 6. 1925 Patented Apr. 5 1927.

UI JETED STATES- LOUIS W. REINHARLDT, OF BROGKTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

' DISPLAY FORM AND METHOD OF MIAKING THE. SAME.

' Application filed June 6,

My present invention relates to display forms and particularly to those of shell-like formation.

The usual turned or cast form has been heavy and expensive. It has been inconvenient to store and difficult to dress. It has generally been expensive to produce and not easy to manufacture in differentsi zes and styles. There has also been great difliculty and incident cost in producing a form with an acceptable finish. This has been evident in .such forms as those used for hosiery display and as these limb forms afford one of the best examples of the general problem and of the solution according to my invention, I will discuss this phase in detail as both illustrative and practical. i

Modern hosiery has become much in evidence both in prominence as worn and as merchandised. As advertised and as displayed, perfection of fit and elegance and style of manufacture have been competitively played up to the purchasing public until a point of artistic sophistication has been reached that has exhausted the ingenuity of the merchandisers.

The hosiery form has not kept pace with other means of display and my invention is well illustrated by its solution of this problem.

Briefly, I am able to provide a light, moulded member of any desired shape or size and capable of a finish that will do justice to the most delicate and artistic merchandise that it may be called upon to display to a most exacting purchasing public.

lVithout further discussion of the demand which is obvious, and the difficulties which are evident, I will proceed to the discussion of my invention which affords the solution.

Throughout the specification and drawings like reference characters are employed to indicate corresponding parts. and in the drawings Fig' 1 is a group of blanks for one of my forms.

Fig. 2 is an unassembled group of moulded parts.

Fig. 3 is a view showing the tacked seam of one of the parts partly sawed.

Fig. 4 is an end closure piece, and

Fig. 5 is a vertical section of an assembled limb. showing the joints.

In practice I form the limb in as many sections as may be necessary to secure proper individual moulding. As shown in Fig. 1,

1925. Serial No. 35,435.

I have shown blanks for the-foot 1, thelower leg 2, andv the upper leg 3. These blanks are carefully designed so that each when wet and stretched will overlap as at X These overlaps are tacked to the wooden form to hold until set.

The blank thus mouldedis-then stripped, realigned by .a few tacks and then'sawed or out. The saw kerf runs centrally of the overlap and leaves a'pair of abutable edgesformed by clearing the strips X.

The stripped forms are internally reinforced by a stay along the seam as at Y. This brings the blank toa formed stage when it is moulded as a unit and in a hollow form with its seams closed and externally invisible. Each section is so moulded and united or seamed. The sections are proportioned to the natural sections of the limb so that no section will have extreme reverse curves. The terminals are generally transverse to the axis so as to permit telescopic assembly.

To effect the assembly I form an internal sleeve 6 of fibrous or textile material which being internal may be riveted or otherwise fastened. It is preferably glued or cemented 1nto one member and telescoped into the other and glued there. I thus secure an abutted joint reinforced and aligned and having a surface capable of a finish continuous and complete.

The completed form as illustrated by the limb shown makes a complete model, light and strong and durable. It is not subject to the usual defects and is convenient and economical.

The form may be variously made, but I reserve all variants as within my invention as claimed.

hat I therefore claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A limb form consisting of hollow leg and foot members of fibrous sheet stock, each having its seam edges abutted and internally stayed, and an internal configured coupling uniting said members with their adjacent ends in abutment.

2. A display form comprising a. limb member and a foot member, each compris ing a single sheet of fibrous stock having their vertical edges abutted and stayed. and having their ankle edges abutted, and an internal configured ankle coupling fitted within the abutted ends to unite the two.

3. The method of producing a limb memher having a contoured seam consisting in moulding a sheet of stock about a model with the edges overlapped, 1n drylng and stripping, in cutting a kerf through the overlap, in abutting the edges of the kerf, and in uniting the abutted edges.

4:. The method of producing a plural section limb form consisting in moulding a sheet of stock about a model with the edges overlapped, in cutting said overlapped edges longitudinally thereof in abutting the edges of the kerf, in uniting the abutted edges, in providing an internal configured ankle coupling and in assen'ibling the sections axially.

5. The method of producing an anatomical form consisting in moulding a sheet of fibrous stock about a model With the edges overlapped, in drying and stripping, in cutting a kerf longitudinally through the overlap, in abutting the edges of the kerf, and in V uniting the abutted edges by an internal longitudinal stay. 7

6. The method of producing an anatomical form consisting in moulding foot and limb sections from sheets of fibrous stock about corresponding foot and limb sectional models with the edges overlapped, in drying and stripping, in cutting a kerf through the overlaps, in abutting the edges of the kerfs, in uniting the abutted edges by internal stays, and in assembling the sections axially.

4'. As an article of manufacture, a limb display form consisting of hollow sections of sheet stock each having a longitudinal seam with abutted edges and an internal steam stay.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

LOUIS W. REINHARDT. 

